Word: quiets
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...struggles to defeat death and the beatific, artistic female who courageously accepts it. Without the star wattage of real people to put over the chemistry of the characters, the authors never build up a convincing case for the timelessness of this relationship. They need to stretch out the quiet bits, but, even at over 160 pages, the pace has the accelerated feel of compressed film script...
...parents, the idea of being elderly and alone suddenly causes Wendy to burst into tears. Later, in the second vignette, Glenn lies next to his sleeping wife and thinks about how much she means to him. In a stunning sequence of pages that combine dark-hued tableaus of a quiet bedroom at night with an imagined universe of sleeping couples past and present, Glenn's over-caffeinated brain considers the beauty of love and the sadness of parting. Even those unlucky enough to have never felt a powerful need to be with another person will be touched by Huizenga...
Zimbabwean people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock...
...exquisite tailoring caught the eye of Vogue tastemaker Andre Leon Talley. In 2003, upscale department store Barneys asked him to design for its private label, and the following year he turned down the top job at couture house C?line, preferring to stay small. Which is how this so-called "quiet man" has come to occupy a unique spot on fashion's center stage...
...hierarchy of economic engine-nations into a world where the ambitious everywhere can compete across borders against one another, and he identifies the science problem as a big part of that development. Borrowing a phrase from Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he calls it America's "quiet crisis...